Happy Friday! Clear skies this morning after three days of cloudy skies and rain that brought over 2 inches of much needed moisture. The mountains received snow with as much as 2 feet in Rocky Mountain National Park. That will put a smile on the farmers faces in eastern Colorado as well as golfers in Phoenix.
Jessup Farm was a turn of the century farm owned by Joseph and Mary Jessup. In 2011 it was developed into an innovative, adaptive reuse plan to preserve, restore, and rehabilitate the historic integrity of the farmstead. It’s been developed into the Buckingham housing and the Artisan shops. One of these shops is Bindle Coffee. 🙂 There is a barber shop, dress shop, couple of restaurants, portrait studio, brew house, fitness place. Needles to say there is no more farming. However, they do have a chicken coop with chickens that roam around outside.
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Earl
Happy Friday to you, Monte! I just finished browsing the link to Jessup Farm you provided…very cool. So much nicer to see something like this rather then a “cookie cutter” commercial/residential development. Have a great weekend and enjoy a couple of cups of coffee for me. 🙂
Monte Stevens
The barber shop, the coffee shop, a craft store and the brew house are in the farm building. The Farmhouse restaurant is the old farmhouse. Pretty cool. They also have an open air firepit for the cooler evenings.
Tom Dills
Hey, they’ve got coffee and chickens, that ought to keep anyone happy! 😉 That looks like a really interesting place to visit, Monte. Around here it might get turned into a brewery or distillery, but more likely would get torn down to make room for a 500 unit apartment complex or a self-storage facility. I love the idea of small independent artists and artisans in one location. I would definitely like to visit the brewery. People are doing some interesting things with beers and different kinds of barrels.
Monte Stevens
I like the ambiance it offers but it is on the other side of town. And, Fort Collins, as you know is a micro-brew community, and loaded with breweries, big and small. I had dinner last night at a new place called Ginger & Baker. I was given a gift card at Christmas and took Joan there last night. You two would like it. I think it was a notch above the Kitchen. This artisan venue is something I like but sure not a fan of more 500 unit places or large strip malls. It does cater to the local artists.
Tom Dills
Fort Collins is on our list of places to visit once we have more time on our hands. Probably not this year, but you never know. Not in winter though!